schizophrenia party
background music: Pachinko In Your Head: Non-Linear Music
reading from Ken Kalfus, Thirst
Joshua Fried: Second Cumbia from Headset Sextet
the ultimate real-time sing-along
Le Tigre: Hot Topic
name-dropping as art, edited judiciously
Cobra Killer: Six Secs
best Digital Hardcore record in ages, unsettling abuse of soul
Ivor Cutler: Cockadoodledon't
good morning to you too
Chicks On Speed: Mind Your Own Business
can I reinterpret your lifestyle? a cover of the Delta 5 classic
Grenadine: This Girl
remixed by Warn Defever, crumpling the words and polishing the rest
Lesley Gore: Sometimes I Wish I Were A Boy
...so I could get closer to boys, is the idea. Serious gender dysphoria
Gerty Farish: The Magic Restoring Power Of Sleep
a different kind of chirping
Lisa Fishman: four poems
Marta Sebestyén: Tavasz Tavasz
slow twinkling computers and rusticisms
Men's Recovery Project: New Tubes
fast prickling computers and choking on pieces of plastic
Hot Toasters: Milk
the greatest and only noise/Styx hybrid
Jimmie Rodgers: Whippin' That Old T.B.
optimism is sometimes the only thing that makes you yodel
Elastica: How He Wrote Elastica Man
if you're ripping Mark Smith off, might as well get him to sing
The King Of Luxembourg: Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Captain Beefheart as smooth-listening composer
Mice Parade: Galileo
the inversion of the equation: does abrasion orbit euphony?
Astor Piazolla: Unauthorized
or is it the other way around? a Warn Defever remix
Monica Kendrick: two poems
The Homosexuals: Hearts In Exile
"I think they were like into prog-rock," said my correspondent
Pest 5000: Too Skinny
used to think this was about God: "Yahweh," "count to three"...
Boobie Knight & the Universal Lady: Somebody Touched Me (In The Right Place)
and they wondered why this funk-thresher didn't chart
The Rondelles: Rediscover Fire
coming at the garage come-on from a different angle
Speed The Plough: Bayswater Lane
two floors above the garage, sweet domesticity
Bruce Haack: Jelly Dancers
and in the next room little kids are having very weird dreams
Liliput: Die Matrosen
who wrote the book of love? Swiss sculptors, that's who
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: Jubilee Varia Suite, pt. 1
Dutch jazz chessboxers duking it out politely
Marine Research (live acoustic in the studio, Jesse Cannon engineering):
Hopefulness To Hopelessness
[record: Talulah Gosh: In Love For The Very First Time]
Y.Y.U.B.
Heavenly: It Won't Be Long
Amelia barely remembered this; Calvin had never seen it
Heavenly: So Little Deserve
the best "will you break up with me already" song ever
Smudge: Divan
with that unique Australian pre-Lemonheads pronounciation
Leon Thomas: Shape Your Mind To Die
residual psychedelics in the head of soul-jazz
Arthur: Oyi Oyi
the king of kweilo with his biggest hit, apparently
Calvin Johnson (live in the studio, Jesse Cannon engineering):
Love Will Come Back Again
Your Asterisk
Milquetoast Brigade [a Go Team cover!]
I'm A Lightning Rod For Jesus
Fleetwood Mac: Before The Beginning
live in '69, when Peter Green's hallowed place was his guitar